Israeli Professors Win 2013 Nobel Prize In Chemistry

Mazal tov Arieh Warshel, Michael Levitt and Martin Karplus.

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Israeli professor Arieh Warshel on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, along with fellow Jewish professors Michael Levitt (who also holds Israeli citizenship) and Martin Karplus.

Warshel, 72, is a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he has been since the 1970s.

Fellow winner Michael Levitt, a South Africa-born professor, taught at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot for most of the 1980s. Vienna-born Martin Karplus fled the Nazi occupation of Austria as a child in 1938.

Of the 23 chemistry Nobels awarded in the past decade, 11 of the winners were Jewish and six of them were Israelis.

The trio won the award “for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced.

I’m looking forward to the BDSHoles boycotting matter.

Update: This follows two American Jews winning this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine.

4 thoughts on “Israeli Professors Win 2013 Nobel Prize In Chemistry”

  1. This is being reported here that all three are Americans. I suppose they can be both, but not even a mention of Israeli citizenship. Disappointing.

  2. You forgot to mention Physics Prizewinner Francois Englert, a Holocaust survivor from Belgium who is married to an Israeli and has been a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University for the last 30 years. This makes six Jewish prizewinners this year. The record is seven in 2004. The last time Jews were shut out of the prizes was 1999, and the last time before that was 1983.

  3. They may be Israeli, but the sad fact remains that they have little or no ties to Israeli research and development; that is, their award-winning research is the product of a better-funded and better-realised association with American universities. Israel needs to wake up and increase funding to the sciences before they lose all their good brains to countries such as the States, UK and Australia.

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